textless narratives

this blog is intended to be a 'personal learning journal' or 'log book' to document and reflect on information gathered as input for my proposed research area which focuses on textless narratives - if you are interested in textless narratives please add your comments

Assyrian army besieging a fortress. Alabaster relief from the Palace of King Asurnasirpal II. About 850 BC. London, British Museum

Lion released and killed, from Nineveh, c.650BC Limestone, about 27ins high, British Museum, London

Ulysses recognised by his old nurse. From a red figured vase, 5th century BC, Chiusi, Etruscan Museum

Greek sculptor’s workshop. Left: The bronze foundry with sketches on the wall. Right: Man at work on a headless statue, the head lying on the ground. From a Greek bowl. About 480 BC. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Antikenmuseum

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The lower part of Trajan’s Column, Rome. Dedicated AD 114.

A reception. Detail of a relief from the tomb of Wu-liang-tse in the province of Shantung (China) about AD 150

Gautama (Buddha) leaving his home. Relief found in Gandhara (northern India), about second century AD. Calcutta, Indian Museum

Beronä, David A. "The Top 5 Lists!" Comics Journal (220; February 2000): 30.

Beronä, David A. and Chris Lanier. "Spotlight on Woodcut Novels: A Season of Silent Novels."Comics Journal (208; November 1998): 95-103.

*Beronä, David A. " Pictures Speak in Comics without Words: Pictorial Principles in the Work of Milt Gross, Hendrik Dorgathen, Eric Drooker, and Peter Kuper" in The Language of Comics: Word and Image ed. by Robin Varnum and Christina T. Gibbons, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

*Beronä, David A. "Blackbid not speaking in the dead of night" [SSHHHH! by Jason review], Comics Journal (251; March 2003): 52.